For several weeks, Adele has sparked speculation that she and her boyfriend, sports agent Rich Paul, are married by referring to him as “my husband” and herself as a wife during her Las Vegas residency shows. Now, a source tells US Weekly that the couple isn’t married; they just like using those words.
“They aren’t married but they do call each other husband and wife and have been for a while now,” the source dishes. In fact, Rich started calling Adele his wife after dating her for two months, claims the source, adding, “Adele loved the security [of it] and how much he adores her.”
“Marriage is really just a ceremony at this point,” the source concludes. “They [already] live and act as husband and wife.”
In September, a female fan proposed to Adele, and she replied, “You can’t marry me. I’m straight, my love, and my husband’s here tonight.” A week later, she said, “I’m not the greatest wife when it comes to football, even though my partner absolutely loves it.”
Married or not, Adele has expressed interest in having a second child. In August, she told fans at her show, “I really want to be a mom again soon.” She shares son Angelo with her ex-husband, Simon Konecki.
Paul McCartney is ready to kick off a new leg of his Got Back tour later this month, and he’s giving fans a chance to win a VIP experience at his final show of the year.
The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just launched a new sweepstakes where a lucky winner and their guest will win VIP tickets to his December 16 show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, along with soundcheck access and a meet and greet with McCartney. The package comes with roundtrip airfare, three-night hotel accommodations and a merchandise package.
Fans can enter by making a donation of $10 or more on prizeo.com, with proceeds benefiting Meet Free Monday, a nonprofit Paul launched with daughters Mary and Stella McCartney in 2009 “to create a simple and accessible way for everyone beginning the journey to greener and healthier eating.”
Paul McCartney’s Got Back tour kicks off October 18 in Adelaide, Australia. A complete list of dates can be found at paulmccartney.com.
A new teaser trailer has been released for the Prime Video competition series 007: Road to a Million. The show, hosted by Succession’s Brian Cox, puts contestants through a series of Bond-inspired challenges for a chance to win 1 million British pounds, or $1.2 million.
In the teaser, we see the contestants competing in various locations around the world, including the Scottish Highlands, Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Swiss Alps and Venice, Italy.
According to Amazon Studios, Cox plays “The Controller,” the “mastermind behind the game, who dictates where the pairs go, what they must do, and sets their questions.”
All eight episodes of 007: Road to a Million hit Prime Video on November 10.
The CMT Music Awards is returning to Austin, Texas’ Moody Center for its 2024 event.
The 2023 CMT Music Awards was the first time the award show was held outside of Nashville, and 2024 will mark the second consecutive year it takes place in Austin.
“We couldn’t be more excited to bring the CMT MUSIC AWARDS on CBS back to Austin in 2024!” share CMT Music Awards Executive Producers Margaret Comeaux, John Hamlin and Leslie Fram. “From the electrifying, sold-out Moody Center crowd to fans packing the streets for our outdoor Congress stage, and Bevo himself walking the Red Carpet, our Texas-sized welcome proved to be one of our biggest and most unforgettable shows yet.”
They add, “We’re thankful to our incredible partners at Moody Center and with the City of Austin and are thrilled to bring CMT’s signature blend of world premieres, genre-blending surprises and once-in-a-lifetime collaborations back this April!”
“The CMT Music Awards are coming back to Austin in 2024, and we couldn’t be more excited, says Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. “As the ‘Live Music Capital of the World,’ Austin is no stranger to celebrating its vibrant music community and showcasing an eclectic array of musical talents. We’re proud that the CMT Music Awards are returning to Austin, and we can’t wait to welcome artists and visitors to our city.”
More details, including the show’s hosts, performers and nominees, will be announced at a later date.
The 2024 CMT Music Awards take place live on Sunday, April 7, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. It’ll also be available to stream live and on-demand via Paramount+ with SHOWTIME.
Tems made her return to music with the release of her latest single, “Me & U.”
The new song and its accompanying music video is the Nigerian singer’s first solo release following her 2021 EP, If Orange was a Place, and “Wait for U,” her 2022 smash feature with rapper Future.
In the self-directed visual, Tems is captured among a variety of calming atmospheres, dancing atop a body of water, on mountain peaks and surrounded by trees and other natural habitats.
“‘Me & U’ is about discovering the real me, building a genuine relationship with the Creator, and gaining a true perception of self,” she said of the track.
After premiering on BET Soul and BET Jams Thursday, the video will also debut on Paramount’s Times Square in New York at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET.
KISS will kick off the final leg of their End of the Road tour later this month. While they’ve always been known for their big theatrical shows, singer Paul Stanley believes they’re loved for much more than just the spectacle.
“I always say this: ‘a crappy band with a big show is a crappy band,’” he tells Gulf News. “We didn’t start as a band with everything. We started as a band making music we listened to.” He adds, “And it was never about being a part of a band with make-up and [fireworks] … Our music doesn’t need intellectualizing or philosophizing.”
While Stanley says there are bands that can play to bigger audiences than they do right now, he doesn’t think those artists will still be bringing it 50 years down the line like they do.
“Our devoted fan base is almost like a tribe. We don’t make art that is intellectual, we make art that’s emotional,” he says, noting, “That’s why people remember their first KISS concert, their first KISS song, and they remember when KISS first came on the radio. It’s a powerful connection.”
The final leg of KISS’ End of the Road tour launches October 19 in Cleveland, Ohio. A complete list of dates can be found at kissonline.com.
Selena Gomez has great onscreen chemistry with her two Only Murders in the Building co-stars, Martin Short and Steve Martin, and the three are pals offscreen as well. Before Short started working with Selena, however, he was concerned she’d be a “nightmare.”
Short, 73, was one of the guests at Selena’s October 4 benefit gala for her Rare Impact Fund, which raises money to provide mental health resources to young people. Speaking to People at the event, he said, “The first day we shot, I had never met Selena. Because of COVID, we’d only Zoomed. And I was driving to work and I thought, ‘I wonder what Selena’s could be like?’ I mean, she could be a nightmare. She could be a pop princess nightmare.”
But Short said he realized “right away, from the first second we started … it was, like, fabulous.” He noted Selena is “always on time, always knows her lines. So good, so talented, such a pro — it’s fabulous.”
At the gala, Selena spoke about how she was inspired to start the Rare Impact Fund by her own mental health journey, according to People. She told the crowd, “I struggled with the world inside my head for a long time and I felt lost and I felt hopeless at times.”
“And in 2020, I received my diagnosis of bipolar disorder. And to be honest, everything quickly changed,” she continued. “I actually got the knowledge and the answers that I had been desperate for for so long … [and] I could seek out the support I needed to be myself, to find my joy again.”
She also said the fund is “probably the most important thing that I’ve ever done.”
(NEW YORK) — A teenage suspect has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing of Brooklyn, New York, activist Ryan Carson, police said.
The suspect, 18-year-old Brian Dowling, was taken into custody around 11 a.m. Thursday, police said. He was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Detectives were searching Dowling’s home, located less than a block from the deadly assault, when he showed up, according to police sources. They recovered the sweatshirt he appears to have been wearing in the surveillance images from the scene of the stabbing along with a knife that will now be tested to see if it matches the murder weapon, sources said.
He is being held at the NYPD’s 81st Precinct and is expected to appear in court later Thursday.
Carson, 31, died after being stabbed in the chest multiple times during the apparently unprovoked attack early Monday morning in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, police said.
Carson and his girlfriend were coming home from a wedding at the time.
The suspect walked past the couple while they were seated on a bench at a bus stop, police said. As the two then walked toward the suspect, he started to damage scooters and said to Carson, “What are you looking at?” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters during a press briefing Wednesday.
As Carson tried to de-escalate the situation, the suspect swung a knife at him, Kenny said. Carson backed up and tripped, falling to the ground. The suspect then stabbed him three times, with the knife piercing his heart, Kenny said.
Prior to the attack, the suspect was seen “acting agitated” while talking to a woman police believe to have been his girlfriend, Kenny said. Following the stabbing, the woman apologized to the couple and said the name Brian, Kenny said.
Police say the suspect in the stabbing was enrolled in a learn-to-work program at a school in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is said to have had prior summonses for disorderly conduct in 2022.
A day after the stabbing, the NYPD released a photo of a suspect sought in the case, and police were working to develop probable cause to make an arrest, Kenny said Wednesday.
Carson was a longtime campaign organizer for the New York Public Interest Research Group, a non-partisan political organization, focusing on waste policy. He also created the campaign No OD NY, which raised awareness for overdose prevention centers.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams called his murder “unthinkable,” and vowed that the NYPD “won’t rest until we bring him to justice.”
(NEW YORK) — A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Turkish drone armed with air-to-surface missiles that was flying extensively in the area of U.S. ground troops in northeast Syria on Thursday, according to a U.S. official.
An F-16 shot the drone down after a dozen unheeded calls to Turkish military officials stating American forces were in the area and the U.S. would engage in self-defense if it didn’t leave, according to the official.
The shootdown of the Turkish drone comes days after Turkey conducted retaliatory airstrikes in northern Iraq against locations related to the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), the militant Kurdish group that claimed responsibility for recent bomb attacks in Ankara.
Reuters reported Thursday that the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement that the drone did not belong to the Turkish armed forces.
Both the United States and Turkey are members of the NATO alliance, and Thursday’s shootdown will likely increase the tensions between the two countries, which had previously been at odds over Turkey’s refusal to allow Sweden to join the alliance.
There are about 900 U.S. troops based in eastern Syria who continue to work with Syrian Kurdish forces to prevent a resurgence by the Islamic State. Known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Turkey has repeatedly claimed the SDF and the PKK are the same organization.
The U.S. has previously criticized Turkish airstrikes inside Syria that targeted Kurdish forces operating in close proximity to American forces.
Last November, U.S. officials said one Turkish airstrike came within 130 meters of American military personnel.
“These strikes put our troops at risk. They also risk the continuation of the defeat ISIS mission,” a U.S. Central Command spokesman said at the time.
That airstrike came at a time when the Turkish military was conducting a ground operation against SDF forces in northern Syria that led the Kurdish group to suspend its military operations with the U.S. military.
Kevin Costner’s two-part Western has secured its release dates.
Chapter 1 of Horizon: An American Saga will be released on June 28, 2024, and Chapter 2 will hit theaters on August 16, 2024.
The story is set over 15 years — pre and post-Civil War — and follows a group of settlers and indigenous people on America’s Western frontier. In a short teaser for the films, we see a glimpse of Costner on horseback, shooting his rifle at an unseen target.
Costner is directing the films as well as starring in them. The movies also star Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt and Jamie Campbell Bower.
